I'm using a K6 200MHz MMX Enhanced Processor and am getting the following: dmesg from 2.2.1 kernel,
CPU: AMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 01 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. AMD K6 stepping B detected - <6>K6 BUG 10010168 20000000 (Report these if test report is incorrect) AMD K6 stepping B detected - probably OK (after B9730xxxx) www.mygale.com/~poulot/k6bug.html I tried this site and can't get through. dmesg from 2.0.36 kernel, AMD K6 stepping B detected - probably OK (after B9730xxxx). Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. I don't know what all this means. What I can gather the FPU is the math coprocessor. I chose not to enable this option when I compiled both kernels because my processor is supposed to already has one. There is an indication from the dmesg readout that there is a bug associated with this kernel but to report if the test is not correct. How do I test the kernel to determine if in fact it is buggy? I was thinking I could just enable the math processor that the kernel provides for the 386 cpu and that would solve the problem if my math coprocessor is broke? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks, kent
